Discovery of Our Distant Ancestor Fossil Reveals They Were Only a ‘Meter Tall’, Easily Preyed Upon by Leopards Humans have ...

Paranthropus robustus, often referred to as Australopithecus robustus, coexisted with early members of the genus Homo, including Homo ergaster, an early human ancestor. Unlike its Homo relatives ...

The skull is approximately 3.8 million years old and is a member of the species Australopithecus anamensis ... This means either Homo erectus or Homo ergaster could have controlled fire first.

“Paranthropus robustus wasn’t our direct ancestor, but, instead, was a very closely related contemporary (a ‘cousin,’ if you will) of Homo ergaster, a species that we do think was our direct ancestor, ...

It contained almost 5,000 stone tools, three spheres, and two fragments of a Homo cf. ergaster humerus (upper arm bone). Spheres that had been collected from these sites were housed at the ...

P. robustus wasn’t a direct human ancestor but was closely related to Homo ergaster, a species that likely was. The leg bones of P. robustus are rarely found, so the discovery provided new clues ...

THOUGH the brain of the young Australopithecus is about 500 c.c. and that of the adult perhaps 600 c.c. or more, the brain of the type Plesianthropus about 450 c.c, and of the beautiful female ...

Central to discussions about hominin diversity in the mid-Pliocene of eastern Africa is whether or not certain fossils should be attributed to Australopithecus afarensis, instead of representing ...

including those represented by the famous ‘Lucy’ (Australopithecus afarensis, about 3.2 million years old) and ‘Hobbit’ (Homo floresiensis, about 90,000 years old) skeletons, from Ethiopia and ...

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